Detective Comics (1937) #632: J. Paul Getty ( patriarch of the Getty family), Schwarzenegger & t.v. Dinners.
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Batman & Robin & Bombshells vol 1: Victor Hugo, Hemingway, Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Josephine Baker, Jiminy Cricket.
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All Star Squadron (1981): H.P. Lovecraft, J. Edgar Hoover, 36’ Olympics Jesse Owens & Will Everett, Dunkirk, Veronica Lake, FDR fireside chat quote, Arsenic & Old Lace, Roman Candles, Cherry Bombs, & Vesuvius Fountains.
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All Star Squadron (1981): Dr. Frankenstein, Buster Keaton, Tom Sawyer, list of comic strips during war time, Peter Pan, George VI & Queen Elizabeth, Mussolini & CBS, NBC News, Du Barry was a Lady-Bert Lahr & Ethel Merman, Bert Lahr mentioned in Wizard of Oz, Charles Lindbergh.
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All Star Squadron (1981): King Kong, Tarzan, Coke Machine, St. Louis Cardinals & Browns pennants, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes, N.Y. Times Best Seller List, Show Me A Rose- George Feldman & Vivian Varley & Four Loves, Spider Man, Radio City Music Hall.
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That is also a call back to the Silver Age Flash origin in Showcase #4 who was reading a Golden Age Flash comic shortly before he was struck by lightning.
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From Action Comics #806
A book by Brad Meltzer photoshopped into the art. And just a few years later, Mr. Meltzer would do his own thing in the DC Universe. Poor Sue.
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Detective Comics #634-635: the Third Man (movie), Bogart & Bergman Casablanca & James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cape Fear & Hitchcock’s Notorious, list of guns, Who’ll watch the Watchmen line, Paul Revere.
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Detective Comics (1937) #638: Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, Pride & Prejudice, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Detective Comics (1937) #642: Dewey Decimal System & It’s inventor Melvil Dewey, Saturday Night Special (small made handgun & good song.
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Detective Comics #650 & #651:Geraldo Rivera variance when he got nose broken by fight between the kkk & civil rights leaders & opened Jimmy Hoffas tomb & it was empty. A Bullet For Bullock exact same as B:TAS #651 Keds shoes. Buffalo Bills AFC East & National Geographic.
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Detective Comics #651-656: Trojan Horse, Alexander the Great “Cry Havoc & let slip the dogs of war”, Lawrence of Arabia, Ottoman Empire, Napoleon pic, Draft Riots & Civil War, General Montgomery & Washington, Mithradates Roman king, Desert Storm.
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